What is World Peace? And How Can We Achieve It?

Posed question: What is world peace? And how can we achieve world peace?

Recently, my friends have been looking for ways to achieve world peace. Because all my friends are extremely different in personality (one's a liberal, one's a Social Darwinist, some are socialists, others conservatives, etc.), we couldn't even come up with an agreed definition for "world peace," so we couldn't base ideas off of a common belief. 

So, I pose the exact same questions here. 

How do we achieve world peace? 

But here's the problem. What even is world peace? That was what my friends and I couldn't agree on. I asked my younger cousin, who was six, and she said, "a time when no one fights." Well, I kind of agreed. No war=peaceful, right? So let's say hypothetically today there were no wars, no mass shootings, no fights, no arguments, no bullying, no threats from other countries. But there were still people living in third world countries today. There were still people dying from various diseases in Africa because they had no money for health care today. There were still people who went to bed with empty bellies today. Would you call that a peaceful day? There was no fighting. But there was miserableness. Is that a "peaceful" day if you agree with my cousin's standards? Did we achieve world peace that day? 

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One of my friends believed that world peace meant everyone working to better their society. Well, then, in that case, let's say today everyone was working. Everyone was working at their jobs, however bad they were, and they were boosting their country's economy/society in some way. The janitors kept the facilities clean. The doctors healed the sick so they could work again. The engineers programmed devices so they could work and be sold. The Colombian gardeners worked their butts off the entire day today in their pesticide-infected greenhouses to cut flowers to sell. Et cetera. There's still miserableness in the world, but hey, the majority of society got better. Is that a "peaceful" day? Did we achieve one day of world peace that day? What even is bettering your society? 

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So here's the question I pose to all of you, once again. What is your definition of world peace? And how do we achieve it? 

In order to define world peace you must first define peace. In oder to define peace you must know what your worldview is.

I come from a confessional Lutheran worldview, so seeing the issue through that lense, this is my answer.

Peace is no more sin in the world and no effects from sin. Peace is knowing that Christ died on the cross for me and that I will have eternal life through him, and that all these things which happen here on earth are but a blink of an eye. World peace would be everyone knowing that truth and believing it, and there would be no sin, and no death. But even if everyone believed there would still be the problem of sin and death in the world, because the world is broken.  (See Genesis 3 and Romans 8:18-25)

Acourding to my worldview, there cannot be world peace in this world while there is still sin and death. So only on the last day, when Christ comes again, will there be world peace. Because, as it says in Revelation 21:4, "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

So in other words, it is impossible for us to achieve world peace as only Christ can bring world peace.

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I probably didn't write that as eloquently as someone else could have.  XD  A very good question though, and I hope no one takes undue offense at anything.